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Inbox Zero series extended

This past week ended up throwing me a couple curve balls, so I only ended up finishing about half of the Inbox Zero articles I'd expected to -- including the very in-demand "Okay, smart ass, enough with the hand-waving and tell me how to actually deal with these 5000 emails" post. Couldn't not deliver that one.

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TOPICS: Admin

What to Do With Old (Digital) Files

This is a pretty simple question, and I have a couple of ideas, but I wanted to ping you all to see what you're up to on this front.

My main documents folder (~/Documents/trunk for those of you scoring at home) is up to about 5.5GB. A lot of this is cruft. Some of it is from prior school semesters. Some of it is graphics files that aren't actively being used. Some of it is client work. (This should be moving to Subversion soon, however.) I'm sure some of it is even duplicate work. For instance, flat .jpg copies of a Fireworks PNG or Photoshop PSD.

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Any way to widen the 43folders layout?

Hello all,

Is there any way to widen the layout of 43folders?

I have a widescreen monitor, and the site (particularly the new forum) feels squished to me.

Thanks!

Jim

Rememble.com helps to prune memorable stuff

I started to use rememble.com to create an inspiring memory of stuff and ideas.

The problem was that I had too much stuff at my home which I didn't need any more, but found interesting or worth keeping, because it reminded me on great things in the past. To get rid of this stuff around me, I put it into an unorganised big box which grew and grew and in which I didn't look at anymore, but also didn't want to throw away.

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Check Off

Check Off

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Fix the name 'Board'?

Fix the name "Board"?

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Need help in my Phone

Need help with my phone Motorola L6i. I have been given by my friend a blue tooth device headset but sad to say i don't know how to use it. There's no instruction given and no instruction in my phone's manual. How to connect the headset to the phone?

TOPICS: Grabass

New user 10.5.3

Merlin really makes me laugh during those Mac Break Weekly podcasts, it makes me feel proud to be a 40 year old NPR-listening 2-daughter-having mac-groking software-developing tufte-esque music-obsessed micro-multi-tasking sailboat-racing productivity-oriented social-networking meta-meta kind of person.

Hello and glad to be poking around!

-Brett

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Mental Inbox

Hi

This is something I found to be both sacrilegious to GTD and very much a core part of its "capture everything" philosophy.

Over time, I've found that more and more, I need to capture something at any possibly circumstance. Now I usually carry a small pad and pen right in my pocket, but there are times when you don't have access to that, in fact a lot of the time.

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Best Clip Utilities

i have been a loyal copypaste user for years, but it's incompatible with more and more apps (like textexpander and typeit4me), and I haven't heard anything about it being compatible with 10.5.

i liked copypaste best when it was pre-YType, so i am looking for a replacement that is similar and easy to use. i know quicksilver has a clipboard, but i'd like something with easy to use hot keys as there is in copypaste.

TIA!

 
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